Monday, April 16, 2012

I just returned from C2E2 (or the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo) last night, I'm still a bit tired from the trip but I had a great time. I had an awesome time to be honest because not only did people come up to me to discuss their enjoyment of my past work, but many of them asked me about Molly Danger. I guess that means the word is getting around.In the next few months details will be trickling out as we move towards the next phase of production which will be fundraising. I haven't applied yet, I'm holding off until August, partially because I will be hip deep in a soon to be announced project , and some of the incentives I'm planning won't ship until December. At that time, this blog will become a Donors only access blog. At that time we'll also be making a slew of announcements , including who our publisher and creative partners will be.What I can discuss is the format.Molly Danger is planned as a 4 book ,8.5
x 12 Hardcover Graphic Album series scheduled to be published beginning July of
2013. We’re planning on releasing the hardcover as a limited edition of 2000
copies which will retail at 19.99 USD. The books will also be released
digitally several months later. Any additional funds raised for book one will
immediately be used for book two and so on. The series is set to ship bi
annually (Two books per year) and once completed will be packaged as a
collected trade paperback.I'm a-skewing the monthly comics format because this is format that I believe my work shines in. I wanted to offer something that is rarely seen in the American but the standard in the European comics market.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Just to give you an idea of exactly how long I've been wanting to work on this book, here's a house ad I drew for the Airwave Comics version that ultimately never saw print from 2002. It was inked by Richard Maurizio.

Monday, April 9, 2012

Molly Danger is the story of the
world’s most powerful 10 year old girl. A Seemingly immortal superstrong hero,
Molly has protected Coopersville, New York for the last 20 years.

Kept in constant isolation and watched
closely by D.A.R.T. (The Danger Action Response Team) An organization created
to assist in her heroic deeds and monitor her movements, Molly battles the
Supermechs. A team of cybernetically enhanced beings with unusal powers, Molly
always defeats them and yet they always managed to mysteriously escape. Molly
longs for a real life, with a real family, something she’s been told she can
never have. Her life changes when D.A.R.T. recruits a new pilot, Austin Briggs.
Briggs has his own motivations for joining the team, Newly remarried, Austin is
having trouble forming a relationship with his new stepson, Brian. Austin wants
to use his connections to impress Brian, an avid Molly Danger fan. However
things get turned on it’s ear when Molly and Brian form a friendship of their
own.

She believes she’s an alien, whose
family died when their ship crash-landed on Earth and before the atmosphere
could fully alter them. She also believes that she’s alone, the last of her
kind.

Everything she knows is wrong.

The Origin of Molly Danger

Molly was conceived originally on a car
ride with my friend, Rich Maurizio back in 2001. At the time we originally were
trying to pitch Molly as an animated series but later decided to re-envision
the project as a comic book series. We began production 2002, with the
intention of self publishing through Rich’s company Airwave Comics. As my career
picked up it became harder for me to take the time to draw the book. We then
hired another artist (Sonic the Hedgehog
Artist Jamal Peppers) to redraw the script I had written at the time.
Eventually the project fell apart due to time commitments. I never abandoned
the concept and would continue to revisit the possibility over the next three
years. In the mean time, life changes. I signed a six-year exclusive contract
with DC Comics . I got married and had a daughter; I became a teacher and a
lecturer, traveling around the world to conventions and conferences. In all
that time, I never abandoned my girl. In
2008 I became the artist of the comic book series, Supergirl and
something became very clear to me. Whenever I would talk to fans, two things
kept coming up. One was the lack of all ages’ material in the U.S. Comics
market. The second was the lack of female heroes who weren’t an offshoot of a
male hero or weren’t sexually exploitive. That’s when the seed really began to
take root again and why I’m now attempting this massive undertaking. This is
the first creator owned project I’ve done since I co-created the miniseries,
Venture with Noble Causes and Dynamo writer/ creator Jay Faerber in 2003. This
is a story that I feel needs to be told.

This blog is the home of Molly Danger. As we move forward with our plans, starting with our Kickstarter campaign in August, I'll be posting behind the scenes art and more.

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About Me

One of the most popular and prolific pencillers in the comic book industry, Jamal Igle is an award winning artist and writer. Best known for his run on Supergirl with writer Sterling Gates, Jamal has been a professional jack of all trades for nearly 20 years, drawing every title from Action Comics to Zatanna for DC Comics. A former comics retailer, Editor for several small press companies including TV Comics, Airwave Comics and Destination Entertainment. Former Junior Art Director and Marketing rep in the Advertising and publishing arenas. Jamal's clients include Marvel Comics, image Comics, Dark Angel productions/ Simmons and Company, Devil's Due Studios, Crusade Entertainment, Walt Disney inc., Sony Television, CBS Television and Scholastic Entertainment. Jamal has also worked as a conceptional artist for the Toy and gaming industries as well as film and television.
Jamal is married to his beautiful, and much smarter wife Karine.They're also the proud parents of an extremely cute child named Catherine and a Cat named Loustique